A Happy Love-Life happens to the one who works hard at what he KNOWS about it. In all thy getting, get Knowledge.
A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.
It takes two to tango”; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.
You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with.
We will not always be here, so let's make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.